LOL, like I said, "Bob's online brokerage"... why should I trust them? They're completely unregulated, outside of the normal banking system, and not really accountable to anybody. What could possibly go wrong?
Did you forget what happened in 2008? The normal banking system is completely unaccountable to anybody.
You are absolutely correct. Programming is not solely a tool for IT professionals any more than math is solely a tool for professional engineers. Everyone has problems they could automate, if they knew enough to think about automating them.
Kant's argument ignores the fact that neurologically pain is essentially the same process in any mammal. We don't protect animals because of some selfless altruism towards the inhuman. We protect animals because we recognize that they are like us.
I'm not sure that there's any competetive advantage to not getting somewhere as fast as possible in an FPS. For other games where analog control is appropriate, we have analog joysticks, steering wheels, paddle controllers, and trackballs.
Name one, and then explain why it hasn't become the common control scheme for anyone who wants to win. If there were a superior control scheme, then every competitive gamer would use it.
That's all irrelevant. What matters is that keyboard and mouse gamers beat the pants off of gamepad players whenever they go head to head. The keyboard and mouse is the superior controller by the only metric that matters, performance.
With schizophrenia, the lack of motivation is the disability. You can control the positive symptoms(hallucinations) with medication, but we have no treatment for the deficits in executive function caused by schizophrenia. Shrugging your shoulders and saying "try harder you slug" should not be acceptable in a modern society.
If beer and wine are just fine in this day and age, why does growing the much less harmful Cannabis for your own use get you time in the federal prison system?
"Alter" doesn't really have the mechanistic implications you think it does. If you do an experiment, everything identical except plus/minus a stimulus, and the results are different, it's valid to say the stimulus altered the result.
Wine already exist and if you don't like that, you can just use a real Windows95 and install it on a PC emulator.
There's a lot of stuff that won't play on Wine. A lot will, but a lot won't. And 9x is officially unsupported on Virtualbox. It runs, but there are no guest additions. And who knows to what extent DirectX will work?
I've wasted a lot of time trying to get 9x era games to work reliably under Wine or Virtualbox. It came down to being easier to just get a KVM and some vintage boxes. I got a socket 7 box, put a P200MMX overclocked to 225, put a copper cooler with an undervolted fan on it, an old laptop hard drive, a soundblaster with midi daughterboard and a voodoo card. It's the sweetest 1997 rig I can imagine, and it's damn near silent. That was a lot more fun than dicking around with Wine.
I agree that no good virtualization solution exists for 9x games yet. I do keep a Pentium 1, 2, and 3 around for that reason, and they won't keep running forever. But once there's historical interest in these systems, it should be doable. The only reason there's not good 9x support in Virtualbox today is that there's not enough demand for it.
If you're just going to interpret what they say however you want, why bother listening to "parables"? At worst these people are insane, at best they are irrelevant and useless. Why shouldn't we have lost "lost respect for the old ways"?
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LOL, like I said, "Bob's online brokerage" ... why should I trust them? They're completely unregulated, outside of the normal banking system, and not really accountable to anybody. What could possibly go wrong?
Did you forget what happened in 2008? The normal banking system is completely unaccountable to anybody.
I still own systems that can't run 16 bit software.
That's almost half a meter. That's gong to be one big CPU.
Physical facts alone can't tell us anything about what are proper objects of comparison
I disagree. Physical facts are the only things that can tell us what are proper objects of comparison.
You are absolutely correct. Programming is not solely a tool for IT professionals any more than math is solely a tool for professional engineers. Everyone has problems they could automate, if they knew enough to think about automating them.
Kant's argument ignores the fact that neurologically pain is essentially the same process in any mammal. We don't protect animals because of some selfless altruism towards the inhuman. We protect animals because we recognize that they are like us.
I'm not sure that there's any competetive advantage to not getting somewhere as fast as possible in an FPS. For other games where analog control is appropriate, we have analog joysticks, steering wheels, paddle controllers, and trackballs.
Name one, and then explain why it hasn't become the common control scheme for anyone who wants to win. If there were a superior control scheme, then every competitive gamer would use it.
That's all irrelevant. What matters is that keyboard and mouse gamers beat the pants off of gamepad players whenever they go head to head. The keyboard and mouse is the superior controller by the only metric that matters, performance.
The problem is we live in a competitive world.
Maybe we should fix that problem. I'd far rather live in a cooperative world.
With schizophrenia, the lack of motivation is the disability. You can control the positive symptoms(hallucinations) with medication, but we have no treatment for the deficits in executive function caused by schizophrenia. Shrugging your shoulders and saying "try harder you slug" should not be acceptable in a modern society.
Cambodia has whores, do they have those in Swedish prison?
The proper question is, what would Cambodia get out of a high profile extradition fight?
That's exactly what the Bill of Rights was intended to do.
Digital course materials will be better for student learning, but only if they are free (as in speech).
NoScript assumes that all scripting is evil and that you should never allow it unless you absolutely have to
Is that not actually the case? The fact that NoScript breaks half the sites on the web is a problem with the web, not a problem with NoScript.
There's no way I'm getting on a plane where the pilot learned how to fly from Khan's academy.
I don't trust anyone who takes a prohibitionist view on what most of us think is perfectly fine behavior!
You shouldn't trust anyone who takes a prohibitionist view on anything that doesn't harm others.
If beer and wine are just fine in this day and age, why does growing the much less harmful Cannabis for your own use get you time in the federal prison system?
"Alter" doesn't really have the mechanistic implications you think it does. If you do an experiment, everything identical except plus/minus a stimulus, and the results are different, it's valid to say the stimulus altered the result.
The shape of the glass doesn't matter if you count how many drinks you have had.
Wine already exist and if you don't like that, you can just use a real Windows95 and install it on a PC emulator.
There's a lot of stuff that won't play on Wine. A lot will, but a lot won't. And 9x is officially unsupported on Virtualbox. It runs, but there are no guest additions. And who knows to what extent DirectX will work?
I've wasted a lot of time trying to get 9x era games to work reliably under Wine or Virtualbox. It came down to being easier to just get a KVM and some vintage boxes. I got a socket 7 box, put a P200MMX overclocked to 225, put a copper cooler with an undervolted fan on it, an old laptop hard drive, a soundblaster with midi daughterboard and a voodoo card. It's the sweetest 1997 rig I can imagine, and it's damn near silent. That was a lot more fun than dicking around with Wine.
I agree that no good virtualization solution exists for 9x games yet. I do keep a Pentium 1, 2, and 3 around for that reason, and they won't keep running forever. But once there's historical interest in these systems, it should be doable. The only reason there's not good 9x support in Virtualbox today is that there's not enough demand for it.
If you're just going to interpret what they say however you want, why bother listening to "parables"? At worst these people are insane, at best they are irrelevant and useless. Why shouldn't we have lost "lost respect for the old ways"?
Nonsense. If you want to support Linux, publish code. The package maintainers will support their distros for you, free of charge.